POLYGON1993 brings us into a glitch universe that represents his daily life: a distorted world where reality and imagination mingle. A visual artist, film director, and media scenographer, POLYGON1993 has made a name for himself in the world of glitch art.

"The Dance Lesson" or "La Leçon De Danse" in original French, is an animated piece created by POLYGON1993. "La Leçon De Danse'' captures the delicate beauty of a ballet dancer suspended in a moment of perpetual transformation. The dancer, rendered in POLYGON1993's distinctive style of fragmented lines, appears caught in an eternal arabesque, her form simultaneously emerging and dissolving within a matrix of intersecting vectors. The digital glitches create a sense of movement as if the dancer is continuously pirouetting within the confines of the screen.

Check out POLYGON1993’s drop with OpenSea here.

OpenSea: Could you introduce us to your art style and the main themes you explore in your artwork?

POLYGON1993: Hi! My name is POLYGON1993. I’m a visual artist, film director, and media scenographer from Paris, France. I’m mostly known for my work on analog glitch art. I create my artworks and animations by using CRT TVs and circuit-bent video gear from the 80s/90s. I’m generating alterations and glitches on any source material allowing me to recompose videos and pictures at will. The themes I’m often revisiting are nostalgia, depression, lonesomeness but also beauty in the breakdown. By capturing visual errors on the screen, I try to manipulate the alterations and flickering to catch the beauty of the destruction, the beauty of something that you don’t want to see initially. I guess I'm chasing that residual image of myself spending countless hours in front of a screen when I was a kid.

OpenSea: Can you walk us through your creative process when developing an NFT collection or piece? 

POLYGON1993: I usually start by creating one piece that will be the lead direction for the ensemble. I like to do diptych or triptych to create a small series that’s a part of a bigger universe that I’m building. The first thing that comes to my mind is 'What do I want to tell?’; these first thoughts will help me find the themes for the collection. The other important part is, surprisingly, the music I listen to when creating these artworks. I’m heavily influenced by the music I listen to, it drives my sessions as the colors are directly coming from what I hear. I can easily tell you what I was listening to for a lot of my work.

OpenSea: Can you discuss any unique challenges or opportunities you encounter when creating art, specifically for the digital realm of NFTs?

POLYGON1993: I think the biggest challenge I face today is creating alone. I have been a freelance artist for about ten years now, and being able to exchange ideas with a team to progress and become better seems essential to me in the world of art, especially in the very young field of NFTs. I had the chance to co-create a collective of French artists called SOMA, which allowed me to overcome this problem by exchanging ideas with other artists, finding a new source of inspiration, and discovering new creative horizons.

OpenSea: What motivated you to create on Base? How do you think Base's features will benefit your artistic expression?

POLYGON1993: I have always had a desire to make my digital works accessible in NFT format. Base has managed to unite a huge community in recent months, thanks notably to free mints and almost non-existent gas fees. Being able to offer this new work and make it accessible to the greatest number of people is what really motivated me to create on Base.

OpenSea: How has blockchain technology influenced or changed the way you approach art creation? 

POLYGON1993: This question resonates with the creation and development of my NFT collections. I am fond of the gamification of art; I grew up collecting trading cards and playing video games and MMORPGs where you had to complete quests to progress. When I had the chance to incorporate game mechanics into my drops (burn to redeem, etc.), it completely transported me. I felt that I could create derivatives of my work by adding a playful element, which was impossible before when I was only posting my work on social media. I think the blockchain has awakened the collector's side in many people who were not previously interested in art.

OpenSea: How do you plan to engage with your audience through your NFTs on OpenSea? Are there any interactive elements or community-driven aspects to your work?

POLYGON1993: My main communication channel for everything related to NFTs is my X account. Over the years, I’ve built a community that comes partly from web3 and also from web2. I've always aimed to bridge these two communities and bring them together, and this drop on Base will help unify both sides of my audience. I really like the idea of accessibility in NFTs, which often comes down to the price of a piece and the methods used to showcase it. With OpenSea, I now have the opportunity to highlight a work that represents me and offer it to everyone through this Base drop.

OpenSea: What future developments in the NFT space excite you the most, and how do you plan to incorporate these into your future projects? 

POLYGON1993: I am always in search of innovation in digital art. The exponential evolution of NFTs over the past four years has made me realize that we are truly witnessing a paradigm shift. What attracts me the most is the community that can be united around an artistic project, showing that a simple idea can sometimes bring together a large number of people. Glitch is an essential component of my work, and I am waiting for the moment to fully incorporate this initially aesthetic, destructive aspect into the message I convey through NFTs. 

OpenSea: What advice would you give to artists who are new to the NFT space and are considering launching their first digital collection?

POLYGON1993: I would advise them the same thing as for any artistic project, whether digital or not: create. The best way to gauge who we are, what we want to evoke, what we want to tell the world begins by materializing an idea through making a mark on a piece of paper, a layer in Photoshop, a line of code in a terminal. Don’t worry about anything other than the story you want to tell and do it with the means available to you. The NFT space may seem vast today because everything has accelerated very quickly, but I feel that with initiatives like Base, it allows new artists to start confidently without having to fully grasp the ecosystem as we had to do a few years ago. 

OpenSea: Where do you see the future of digital art and NFTs heading in the next five years? How do you hope to contribute to this future? 

‍POLYGON1993: I feel that digital art (and NFTs) will increasingly integrate into traditional art galleries and create truly immersive experiences. We already see the beginnings of this thanks to some NFT galleries and cultural venues that highlight digital art. We are at the intersection of two artistic periods; we are entering the post-contemporary art era, made possible in part by NFTs, which are a component of this new movement. I believe this distinction will become more pronounced in the coming years. As for me, I will do what I do best: create and continue to push the boundaries of glitch art to introduce it to a wider audience.